Nelson's Linkblog 2012-02

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Magazine for teen girls, suggested as a contemporary version of Sassy

2012-02-25 girls • teenagers • culture • music • sassy

Small plan for free map making with TileMill

2012-02-24 cartography • maps • service • hosting • tilemill

Another web scraping toolkit for Python

2012-02-24 scraping • crawling • api • python • code

Amazing OLED Globe

Geo-Cosmos, a spherical screen

2012-02-24 oled • led • visualization • globe

GOP candidate fabrication

Outrageous distortion of reality by Santorum on euthanasia in Holland

2012-02-24 holland • dutch • euthanasia • santorum • lies • politics • gop

Downton Abbey words

Textual analysis

2012-02-24 words • language • downtonabbey • tv

Personal archiving

Great set of notes on how hard it is to snapshot web pages

2012-02-24 web • crawling • archive • data

Classical music from current composers

2012-02-24 music • classical • streaming

Clever little game

2012-02-23 games • via:waxy

Dropbox Automator

2012-02-23 dropbox • automation

Old Fashioned 101

Make the drink proper

2012-02-23 alcohol • cocktails • via:kottke • culture • food

EFF gets a stupid lawsuit dismissed

2012-02-23 timezone • time • eff • software • freedom • via:hackernews

YouPorn chat logins

Another security breach. Top passwords: 123456 123456789 12345 melinda

2012-02-22 badtech • via:hackernews • youporn • password • security

Inertia nutcracker

Charmingly inept sales video

2012-02-22 nuts • pecans • nutcracker

Ridiculous graph

2012-02-22 via:waxy • github • wired • infovis

Sublime Build 2181

Nice subtle change; better text rendering

2012-02-22 text • editors • sublimetext • programming • editor

Live streaming video camera

2012-02-22 camera • video • streaming • lifestreams

World iPhone notes

Great writeup by Matt on using an unlocked iPhone

2012-02-22 iphone • travel • unlock

"Asia tech news for the world"

2012-02-21 china • asia • tech • startups • internet

Useful to explain to people who don't understand github

2012-02-21 git • github • vcs • coding • opensource

Project it Yourself!

Simple tool for playing with map projections

2012-02-21 maps • projections • cartography

LightSquared roundup

Even-handed summary of the GPS / data conflict

2012-02-21 gps • fcc • spectrum • wireless • lightsquared

LCD test images

Great set of images for seeing LCD performance

2012-02-21 lcd • calibrartion • monitor • color

Google Map Maker vs Open Data

World Bank uses a Google tool which restricts the reuse of gathered data

2012-02-21 maps • cartography • google • opendata

Web based packet analyzer

2012-02-21 pcap • libpcap • wireshark • ethereal • networking • via:hackernews

My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

Early photography meets hotness

2012-02-21 photography • photos • men • portrait

Google bypasses IE cookie settings

May be a simple misunderstanding of P3P, or something more sinister

2012-02-20 privacy • google • p3p • cookies • msie

Dashboard: Graphite + D3 + Backbone

2012-02-20 graphene • graphite • d3 • backbone

Point Roberts, WA

Brief overview of an odd border town

2012-02-19 washington • portroberts • border • Canada

Highly efficient user-space raw access to network drivers

2012-02-19 performance • networking • saturation

key-based cache expiration

Interesting: never change the value of a cache entry, just the key

2012-02-19 caching • performance • ruby • via:hackernews

Weather forecast accuracy

Analysis of forecast vs. actual weather

2012-02-18 weather • forecasting • data • sanfrancisco

Cocoa HTTP Client

Like wget or curl, but with a GUI for building complex HTTP requests

2012-02-18 debugging • http • tool • web • software

Simple grid based window manager

2012-02-18 macos • mac • windows • wm

Soren Johnson on board games

Notable computer game designer's picks for board games

2012-02-17 game • boardgames • civilization • sorenjohnson

NYT victory over Apple

Finally a newspaper does actual journalism instead of just repeating a company's PR

2012-02-17 apple • nyt • nytimes • journalism

People with HIV depicted on postage stamps

2012-02-17 via:metafilter • aids • stamps • postage • postal

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

"The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke"

2012-02-17 language • slang • cant • dictionary • history

Harry Street SF, CA

Crazy wooden stairway is officially a city street, complete with houses.

2012-02-16 sanfrancisco • walking • stairway

Hands on with Gatekeeper

Details on Apple's new locking down of applications on MacOS

2012-02-16 mac • apple • gatekeeper • licensing • freedom

Patent troll trolls

Unsurprisingly, Intellectual Ventures claims a monopoly on various essential mobile telecom technologies

2012-02-16 patents • trolls • intellectualventures • myhrvold • mobile

Mac sandbox problems

New app store model is too restrictive

2012-02-16 macos • mac • apple • sandbox • security • usability

Bowie movie posters

Some pretty great photoshop

2012-02-16 bowie • movies • davidbowie • photoshop • funny

Conceptual project of a virtual airship adrift with the winds

2012-02-16 aviation • twitter • maps • via:Waxy • art

Pilot / photographer

2012-02-16 photography • art • photos • aviation • flying • aerial

A CDN for lesser known Javascript libraries

2012-02-16 cdn • javascript • optimization • hosting

LeFrench Mobile

Prepaid SIM option for travellers to France

2012-02-15 france • mobile • cellular • gsm

Microblogs in China

How Twitter-like services are breaking down secrecy in China

2012-02-15 china • twitter • web • freedom • weibo

Andy Baio's awesome web-hosted interactive fiction system

2012-02-15 games • interactivefiction • adventures • inform • infocom

Club Bing closing

Microsoft finally shuts down their embarassing pay-for-searches program

2012-02-15 bing • microsoft • promotion • marketing

Arty visualization of a user's habits at the keyboard

2012-02-15 keyboard • visualization • presence • d3 • infovis

Benchmark DNS servers

2012-02-15 dns • benchmark • optimization • speed • internet

Google DNS stats

800,000 queries / second. It's a great service.

2012-02-14 google • dns • stats • performance

PHP Horde backdoored

ugly; for months they were distributing a Trojaned version of the PHP framework

2012-02-14 php • horde • badtech • security • via:hackernews • backdoor • trojan

Facebook's romance graph

Info on dating relationships, frustratingly limited view

2012-02-14 facebook • romance • relationships

Project development for Stamen's recent demographics map in Esquire

2012-02-14 maps • stamen • design • process

Funny memeish thing

2012-02-14 sanfrancisco • funny • whereilive

Silicon cesspool

Why Arrington and Siegler are hopelessly compromised as journalists

2012-02-13 crunchfund • techcrunch • sleaze • via:hackernews

A simple Alfred extension for rating music in iTunes

2012-02-13 itunes • alfred • applescript

Tumblr architecture

Lots of technical details

2012-02-13 tumblr • architecture • development • scalability • via:hackernews • finagle

Realm of the Mad God interview

Talking to the developers of the indie game

2012-02-13 games • rotmg • mmos • indie

Web performance golden rule

Most of the time is spent in the brower loading assets

2012-02-13 http • optimization • browser • webapp • speed

A roundup of all the process innovations at Etsy

2012-02-13 engineering • etsy • programming • startups • development • culture

Microsoft plaintext passwords

Microsoft site was hacked, jackasses didn't encrypt the passwords

2012-02-12 passwords • security • badtech • microsoft

Renders OSM maps entirely in Javascript, using HTML canvas

2012-02-12 osm • openstreetmaps • maps • mapping • canvas • javascript • gis

A weekly board / card gaming group

2012-02-11 games • sanfrancisco • boardgames

Halftime satanic ritual

Deconstruction of Madonna's Super Bowl performance

2012-02-11 via:metafilter • madonna • batshitinsane • satan

Coding: college vs real

Funny because it's true

2012-02-11 funny • programming • school • via:stellario

RunwayFinder Shutting Down

What a shame: a great aviation site is closing

2012-02-10 runwayfinder • aviation • charts • maps • pilot

Landing on a dirigible

1930s video of Sparrowhawks catching the trapeze on the USS Macon

2012-02-10 flying • aviation • 1930s • navy • ussmacon • dirigible • airship • zeppelin

F9C Sparrowhawk

A tiny biplane meant to be launched from a dirigible

2012-02-10 flying • aviation • dirigible • airship

Eve time dilation

Stats on their technique of slowing down game time when it gets busy

2012-02-09 games • optimization • eveonline • mmo • performance

SSL certificate that let an unnamed customer impersonate any site on the internet

2012-02-09 ssl • security • badtech • trustwave

MapReduce Patterns

Great little summary of useful algorithms

2012-02-09 mapreduce • computation • via:hackernews • performance • hadoop

Inside Instagram

Nice profile of the startup

2012-02-09 instagram • twitter • startup

In 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio police filmed men having sex in a public restroom. Here is the film.

2012-02-09 gay • cruising • tearoom • sex • mansfield • ohio

A re-introduction to JavaScript

I love this kind of high level overview of a programming language

2012-02-09 javascript • programming • code • via:hackernews

A simple note taking app, based on Notational Velocity

2012-02-09 notes • macos • mac • osx • evernote

Beautiful D3 demo, a fancy word cloud layout

2012-02-09 d3 • javascript • words • wordcloud • tagcloud • tags

Lovely ascii animation

2012-02-08 via:twitter • javascript • animation • design • hack

Super Bowl ads on Twitter

Measure of engagement

2012-02-08 via:hackernews • ads • twitter • socialmedia

OpenPhoto on BrowserID

An endorsement from a real site

2012-02-07 photos • identity • openid • browserid • openphoto • authentication

A product for sharing photos that you manage hosting for yourself

2012-02-07 photos • photography • flickr • cloud • s3

HTTP debugging tool that understands ssl

2012-02-07 proxy • http • debugging • code • ssl • via:onethingwell

Chrome gives up on CRLs

A key Web security mechanism is a failure

2012-02-07 ssl • crl • certifications • revocation • google • chrome • security

Story of Temple Run

Great interview with an iOS game success

2012-02-07 games • templerun • imangi • ios • iphone • startups

Etsy: Direct Checkout

Payment options other than PayPal on everyone's favorite online store

2012-02-07 paypal • payments • etsy • creditcard • startup

Linux power saving fix

Long standing power management kernel problem now fixed

2012-02-07 linux • power • acpi • watts

Decent vs. Indecent

Commentary on MIA's silly stunt

2012-02-07 mia • music • superbowl • stupid • hypocrisy

Facebook RSU taxes

Employee stock taxed as income, not long term capital gains

2012-02-07 taxes • facebook • stock • rsu

Bob Marley: Judge Not

His first song, recorded ~50 years ago when he was 17

2012-02-06 music • bobmarley • reggae • jamaica

Map overlays for Google Earth

Load Google street maps, Bing terrain maps, etc on Google Earth. Some render bugs in GE.

2012-02-05 googleearth • maps • mapping • render • osm • openstreetmap

Nevada votes, in real time, via Twitter

2012-02-04 twitter • politics • elections • votes • realtime

Zuckerberg's personal tax

He didn't early exercise his Facebook options?! Also corporate tax shenanigans

2012-02-04 taxes • facebook • zuckerberg • options • isos

A player piano test reel

2012-02-04 music • via:neatorama • playerpiano • automation

Я больше не люблю Google

A Ukrainian site linked my blog post about Google

2012-02-03 google • russian • ukranian • cyrillic

Large git repos

Some statistics from a synthetic test at Facebook

2012-02-03 git • performance • facebook • via:hackernews

Mobile phone market

Apple takes a lot of revenue but even more profit

2012-02-03 apple • iphone • market • statistics

Google's statistics on web page encodings

2012-02-03 google • unicode • stats • encodings • utf8

Slab City Stories

Kickstarter project to do a multimedia documentary of the weird SoCal squat

2012-02-03 slabcity • saltonsea • kickstarter • project

Avería, the average font

Synthetic font, actually quite beautiful

2012-02-03 fonts • typography • via:waxy • design

NY beat cop photos

Great photography

2012-02-03 newyork • police • cops • via:metafilter • photos • photography

Marco Arment on Planet Money

Great, short podcast with the Instapaper guy

2012-02-03 npr • instapaper • podcast • business • startup

metadata tool for Apple's .m4a media files

2012-02-02 id3v2 • id3 • mp3 • mp4 • m4a • apple • applelossless • alac • metadata • tags • music

Jeppesen vs. Twitter

Pirated versions of an aviation database apparently get linked on Twitter

2012-02-02 twitter • jeppesen • aviation • piracy • dmca

Twitter DMCA takedowns

Nice picture of who is censoring Twitter in the US

2012-02-02 twitter • media • movies • censorship • eff

VeriSign security fraud

Company has hidden how many times they've been hacked

2012-02-02 security • badtech • verisign • fraud

In defense of vi

I never understood why people like vi; this helps

2012-02-02 editors • vi • via:hackernews • userinterface • ui • programming

mod_pagespeed filters

List of HTTP server tricks Google recommends for faster Web

2012-02-02 optimization • web • http • performance • pagespeed • mod_pagespeed

Live Tweets of the Nevada primary vote count

2012-02-01 politics • twitter • news

Before Watchmen

DC is going there.

2012-02-01 watchmen • comics • alanmoore

Bootstrap Buttons

Little CSS generation tool for Twitter's HTML UI toolkit

2012-02-01 twitter • css • html

Tracks Facebook and iOS app popularity

2012-02-01 statistics • market • facebook • iphone • apple • ios